Miami Dade College - University of Miami Bridge to the Baccalaureate Program

描述（由申请人提供）：我们要求继续支持迈阿密戴德学院（MDC）和迈阿密大学（UM）的合作伙伴关系，自1994年以来一直由五个连续的桥梁学士学位奖资助。我们有两个总体目标，一个是针对桥梁学者，另一个是MDC的普通科学学生群体。我们的目标是将进入生物医学科学博士课程的学者人数增加50%。我们将修改我们的学生从迈阿密戴德县的招聘派遣学者到他们以前的高中，我们将继续提供补充指导，以提高学者的学术竞争力。我们将通过一个新的综合介绍性研究为基础的实验室课程，在UM与教师导师的研究提供时薪，并支持学生出席全国会议和演讲，鼓励研究的兴趣。我们将通过家庭科学周日活动提高家长对研究事业的赞赏，在这些活动中，家庭将与UM教师导师一起参与真实的研究。通过这项提议，我们重申了我们的承诺，即通过帮助来自代表性不足群体的学生毕业并进入生物医学研究职业，在MDC产生机构影响。我们的目标是将所有MDC理科学生获得副学士学位的人数增加50%，将转入四年制院校的人数增加50%。我们将通过1）扩展到MDC我们的介绍性研究为基础的生物/化学实验室模型，以达到更多的学生，2）实施一个虚拟的同行领导的团队学习计划，将容纳大量的MDC科学学生谁是通勤者，和3）激励MDC学生通过大使计划，学者介绍他们的研究经验，他们的MDC同行。此外，来自这两个机构的教师将参加教学创新研讨会，学习和分享与以学生为中心的学习相关的技术。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request continuing support for a Miami Dade College (MDC) and University of Miami (UM) partnership that has been funded since 1994 by five successive Bridges to the Baccalaureate awards. We have two overall goals, one targeting Bridge scholars and the other the general science student population at MDC. We aim to increase the number of scholars entering doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences by 50 percent. We will modify our recruitment of students from Miami-Dade County by sending scholars to their former high school, and we will continue to provide supplementary instruction to increase scholars' academic competitiveness. We will encourage interest in research through a new integrative introductory research-based laboratory course, provision of hourly wages for research with faculty mentors at UM, and support for student attendance and presentations at national meetings. We will raise parents' appreciation of research careers through Family Science Sunday events, at which families will participate in authentic research with a UM faculty mentor. With this proposal, we renew our commitment to having an institutional impact at MDC by helping students from underrepresented groups graduate and enter biomedical research careers. We aim to increase the number of all MDC science students receiving their associate degrees by 50 percent and the number transferring to four-year institutions by 50 percent. We will accomplish this by 1) extending to MDC our introductory research-based biology/chemistry lab model to reach many more students, 2) implementing a virtual Peer-Led Team-Learning program that will accommodate the large number of MDC science students who are commuters, and 3) motivating MDC students through an ambassador program in which scholars present their research experiences to their MDC peers. In addition, faculty from both institutions will participate in teaching-innovation workshops to learn about and share techniques related to student-centered learning.